Weekending

We kept Nicholas busy, busy this weekend with some pretty fun activities.  On Saturday morning, Greg had the great idea for us to all go to the 45th Infantry Museum.  For a young boy, and even his parents, this was an exceptionally interesting tour.  I was really surprised at all the historical artifacts they had on display, and I was especially intrigued by the large collection of Hitler relics.  Among some of the items were silverware, linens, stationary, and clothing.  It was definitely unnerving to be so close to items used by the most despicable human being to ever live.  But, the museum had a lot of less somber exhibits that we all enjoyed, including a vast accumulation of military vehicles and aircraft.  I was pleasantly surprised by everything they had to offer, all at no cost to the public.  Now, that's not something you come across very often.  I'm sure we'll be going back many times in the future.   

 Here are some of the Hitler items I was talking about.  These are all things taken directly from his Berlin bunker.  It's hard to see, but the linens hanging on the bar have his monogram on them. 

 This next one was probably the most chilling of them all.  This is a mirror that

was hanging in his personal bedroom inside the bunker.

Next up was Sunday afternoon at the Oklahoma State Fair! Neither Greg nor I had gone to the fair in well over 10 years but now that we have a child who's given us a renewed sense of fun we decided to give it a go. While it was ridiculously expensive, it was still quite a good time. Nicholas had a ball getting to ride some rides and play games with Daddy. I was very disappointed though that he wanted nothing to do with the ferris wheel. I figured he'd be all over that one but he couldn't have cared less. Bummer. This was our first time to be in a crowd of this size without putting Nicholas in a stroller so we had a very serious talk beforehand about the importance of holding our hands the entire time and to never, ever run off from us. Not once did he give us any trouble and kept a tight grip on me the whole time. However, I don't think the fair atmosphere suited him all that well. He's usually pretty well behaved when we're out and about at different functions, but this one didn't go so smoothly. I think he was a little overstimulated by all the sights and sounds and threw a few tantrums when he didn't get what he wanted. One of those tantrums came as we were leaving and we turned him down on a toy machine gun. Probably the worst public tantrum I've experienced to date. We just grabbed him by the hands and marched as fast as we could for the gate, heads down to avoid the stares and laughter around us. But hey, I'm sure that 90% of that crowd had experienced this little pitfall of parenthood at one time or another so I'm not letting it get me down. That's what you get from a tired, hot, overly excited three year old. Sometimes you got to just roll with the punches, eh?

 Watching the pig races from Daddy's shoulders. 

He desperately wanted to ride the race cars and got there just in time to hop on.  There were

plenty of open cars but for some reason he chose to ride shotgun with this little boy.  We tried

to convince him to move but he was happy as a clam right where he was. 

                                                   Fast, Mom?  Really?  Lighten up.

I enjoyed every minute of this weekend, just the three of us together being a family.  We've got several fun weekends on the horizon so we'll be back with more very soon!  Have a terrific week!!